Chuck Schumer

Charles Ellis "Chuck" Schumer (23 November 1950-) was a member of the US Senate from New York (D) from 3 January 1999, succeeding Al D'Amato. He also served in the US House of Representatives (D-NY) from 3 January 1981 to 3 January 1999, and he served as Senate Minority Leader from from 3 January 2017, succeeding Harry Reid.

Biography
Charles Ellis Schumer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York on 23 November 1950 to a family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. He scored a perfect 1600 on the SAT and graduated as class valedictorian from James Madison High School in 1967, going on to attend Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He passed the state bar in 1975, but he never practiced law, instead being elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democratic Party politician. He served in the State Assembly until 1981, when he was elected to the US House of Representatives. He represented New York's 16th district from 1981 to 1983 (succeeding Elizabeth Holtzman and preceding Charles Rangel), the 17th district from 1983 to 1993 (succeeding Mario Biaggi and preceding Edolphus Towns), and the 9th district from 1993 to 1999 (succeeding Thomas J. Manton and preceding Anthony Weiner). He was known to love the media, using it to raise his profile. He visited every one of New York's 62 counties, and he focused on tourism, local taxes, and job creation. He supported Obamacare, the 1994-2004 Assault Weapons Ban, the Iraq War, the right to choose, middle-class issues, consumer rights, security and recovery efforts after 9/11, the US alliance with Israel, same-sex marriage (despite previously opposing it), and immigration reform, while he opposed the Iran nuclear deal. In January 2017, he became the new Senate Minority Leader, and he led the Democratic opposition against Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the Senate.